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That's the 'wanton or furious driving' section of the offences against the person act. I remember reading about it before. The maximum sentence is 2 years in prison. A horrible thing to be facing as a 19 year old rider, but clearly not as horrible as what happened to the pedestrian.
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What they are being charged from/with.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/contents
What death by other roadusers is charged from/with.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/contents
Just take a look at the other charges in that list, a driver is grouped with those who have a brake light out or other small motoring offences while the cyclist is being grouped with "murder" "child stealing" "shooting" "threats to kill" the list goes on and on.
Clockwise
All that comes to mind is "why aren't drivers charged for that same thing?".